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1. CBD Hemp Oil is 100% legal in all 50 U.S. states and Canada.  The legality of CBD can be confusing because of the association with cannabis. However, CBD oil made from hemp is not a federal controlled substance. Thus, it is legal in every state regardless of each state’s medical marijuana laws. 2. CBD Hemp Oil may be an effective treatment option for joint pain /inflammation, anxiety, stress and/or sleeping problems based on testimonials and comments that we’ve received.   Since it is not an FDA-approved medication or dietary supplement, you should do your own research to determine if CBD Hemp Oil may be effective for you. 3. CBD Hemp Oil products come in several different forms.   These include tinctures (liquid drops), vape oils, capsules, lotions and dabs. People often choose one form or another based on their personal preference and the dosage of CBD that works best for them. 4. CBD Hemp Oil can be purchased online but quality can vary by supplier.   Th...

By Samuel Stebbins and Thomas C. Frohlich, 24/7 Wall St Support for marijuana legalization in the United States has risen steadily over the years. Today, a majority of Americans are in favor of legalizing the drug, although the number of people actually smoking weed is far lower. Slightly more than 13% of Americans 12 years old and over report using marijuana in the past year. Some states report much higher marijuana use than others. 24/7 Wall St. reviewed the percentage of people 12 years old and over consuming marijuana at least once in the past year in every state from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Colorado leads the nation with 21.6% of people reporting use of the drug. States with fewer marijuana restrictions tend to have higher cannabis use rates. All four states where recreational marijuana use is legal — Alaska, Colorado, Oregon, and Washington — are among the 12 states with the highest use rates. Every state on this list is among the 25 state...

At 10 months of age, Kalel Santiago of Puerto Rico was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer called neuroblastoma. He endured chemotherapy, radiation treatments, and surgery for two years—and survived. Then he was diagnosed with something permanent: severe autism that disabled him from speaking. “While he was in the hospital, we noticed he didn’t speak at all and had some behavior that wasn’t right, like hand flapping, and walking on his toes,” his father Abiel Gomez Santiago told Yahoo News. “But we waited until he was 3 and cancer-free to look at his behavior.” According to Yahoo, “He and his wife Gladys — also parents to two older boys, now 18 and 20 — did a cram course in educating themselves on autism. They tried various schools and therapies and eventually found impressive success with a unique surf-therapy school near their home.” Eventually, the Santiago family stumbled upon a treatment of real potency and potential: CBD oil. Through a fundraising program, they were able to rec...

The unique nature of cannabis is demonstrated partly by the special characteristics of its smoke. Unlike virtually all other forms of smoke, which impair lung function, cannabis smoke may actually improve it. That being said, vaporizing cannabis is clearly the superior alternative to smoking cannabis, as it provides the medicinal compounds of marijuana without the negative side effects of smoke (such as carcinogens and other cancer-causing chemicals). Regardless, many studies have shown that cannabis use may benefit asthma patients and enhance general lung function by acting as a bronchodilator, rather than a bronchoconstrictor. In fact, a new study in the Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics provides yet further evidence of how cannabinoids could help protect the lungs. How THC and THC-V Benefit the Lungs Using guinea pigs, the study measured the ability of cannabinoids to inhibit bronchoconstriction induced by inflammatory proteins. The cannabinoids in...

Marijuana legislation is being relaxed all over the world – but not in the UK, where the most unlikely of horticulturalists are taking the law into their own hands n the heart of Cumbria stands a two-bed roomed cottage wrapped in ivy that for half a century has been home to a lady named June. She makes a pot of tea in a cluttered kitchen brimming with fresh herbs in labelled jars, assorted saucepans and drying socks, then potters across the slate floor, and into a garden. Here lies what June calls “her private retreat”. An overgrown rose bush dotted with apricot-colored blossoms creeps over a rusting bench and from one of the many ceramic plant pots comes the scent of rosemary. At the back of the garden stands a decaying shed, lost beneath a white climbing hydrangea, and nestled behind this sits a small grow tent, which June tells me contains a single cannabis plant. She pulls down the zip to reveal the hidden green leaves. “You wouldn’t believe it was only one plant!” The sight is rem...

 By Kyle Jaeger As a 1-year-old, Austin had his first seizure—a grand mal seizure that caused him to stop breathing and enter into full body convulsion. It happened shortly after he was immunized, and though they didn't know it at the time, that was an early sign that Austin had Dravet Syndrome, a rare form of epilepsy. The diagnosis meant that the child would suffer from daily seizures, sometimes hundreds in a single day, leaving him and his family at the mercy of an unpredictable and debilitating disorder. Treatment options for Dravet patients are seriously limited. When he was only four years old, Austin was already prescribed a medley of pharmaceuticals to combat the seizures, many of which proved dangerous and ineffective. At one point, a doctor put him on Keppra, an anti-epileptic, and not only did it fail to prevent the convulsions but it also caused Austin to gain 68 pounds, effectively doubling the six-year-old's weight in just 30 days. They weaned him off of Keppra, b...

If the presidential election here in the United States is getting you a bit down, perhaps you’ve thought about high-tailing it to Canada. Our neighbors north of the border really do live a charmed life, but I’ll bet you didn’t know that under Canada’s medical marijuana program, there’s now a health insurance company that reimburses the cost of cannabis for patients as part of their insurance coverage. You heard that right — free cannabis is now possible for Canadians covered by Sun Life insurance. It’s a sign of quickly-changing perceptions of cannabis in North America, and other insurance companies are expected to follow suit. The Marihuana for Medical Purposes Regulations (MMPR) passed in June of 2013, creating a for-profit commercial structure for medical cannabis producers and retailers. These regulations also ensure that any sick Canadian in need of treatment can access cannabis that’s been grown in a safe and sterile environment. Here’s the only issue: while the vast majority of ...

Read the original breaking Cannabis news article, click here Arkansas Online Medical Marijuana One Step Closer to Ballot KARK “The announcement today of a pro-marijuana group turning in signatures is problematic for the future safety of Arkansas. The initiative, headed by Melissa Fults, would allow people to grow marijuana. It should only be used if it becomes FDA approved …

Two trends are coming together that may bring changes to the way chronic nerve pain is treated. Overdose deaths from prescription opioid pills are increasing dramatically, such as the epidemic in Tennessee. Meanwhile, multitudes of studies are confirming the medical benefits of cannabis, as prohibition laws steadily crumble. Well-known researchers at the B.C. Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS have published an editorial in the Canadian Journal of Public Health, saying that doctors are ignoring legitimate studies on the use of cannabis to treat a host of conditions. Thomas Kerr, Julio Montaner and Stephanie Lake argue that medical cannabis should be used instead of opioids for neuropathic pain, but this is being stigmatized by the fact that medical cannabis is not approved by Canadian regulators. “The evidence supporting the therapeutic use of cannabis is actually much stronger than the use of other drugs that are used to treat the same conditions and it also seems, in many cases, that ...

By Ellen Lenox Smith Contributor I write about Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome Why — at the age of 57 — would one ever consider turning to medical marijuana? I wondered the same thing after being sent to a pain doctor just before another surgery in 2006. After reviewing my records and seeing that I was unresponsive to pain medication, the doctor clearly had no idea what to suggest, except trying medical marijuana. I was born with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome and later also added sarcoidosis to my life. I was living with chronic pain that was preventing me from sleeping, thinking straight and functioning. From birth, I had one issue after another reacting to medications. And after 22 surgeries, you can imagine the horror of all I had to endure and the added pain of never knowing the proper relief my body could have from pain medication. Eventually, a DNA drug sensitivity test was ordered and it confirmed I could not metabolize most drugs. This meant no aspirin, Tylenol or any opiates. I took the advi...

I have met a lot of “Warrior Moms” in my travels as a cannabis activist but there is none more courageous and tenacious than Amy Bottoms, mother of Allison Sky Centennial, a 16 year old southern Illinois teen with epilepsy. If there was an award for “Mother of the Year,” Amy deserves it! The family has gone through unimaginable pain, suffering and stress for years, desperately trying to help Ally, before discovering medical cannabis as a life-saving treatment. I first read about Ally on Facebook. It was just after she started using cannabis products which “gave her her life back” and I knew I wanted to share her story. There are so many children with epilepsy whose parents are still afraid of the stigma of cannabis. I hope Ally’s story will change at least one person’s mind. I did a conference call with Ally and Amy a few days ago. Amy has 2 other children living in the home who were up and about at the time of our call, so the 2 of them went outside on the back porch to find a quiet p...

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau just laid out his case for why legalizing cannabis makes a lot of sense. Put plainly, you'd struggle as an investor to find a faster growing industry than marijuana. According to ArcView Market Research, a cannabis research firm, legal marijuana sales in the U.S. totaled $5.4 billion in 2015 and could grow at a compound annual rate of 30% through 2020. This growth comes after Ohio became the 25th state to legalize the use of medical marijuana earlier this month. Meanwhile, four states -- Oregon, Washington, Colorado, and Alaska -- have legalized the sale of recreational marijuana since 2012. Patient access to medical marijuana is really starting to blossom, and drug developers are getting in on the act by researching cannabinoids designed to interact with the cannabinoid receptor system located within our bodies. GW Pharmaceuticals' (NASDAQ:GWPH) Epidiolex is a great example. In a phase 3 study reported in March, GW Pharmaceuticals announc...

This is a tribute to Rick Simpson, without whom cannabis oil for healing would probably not be used successfully by so many today. He tells everyone he didn’t invent cannabis oil, he “rediscovered” it. But his attempts to legalize it in Canada and promote his rediscovery to the world has brought attention to many now using cannabis oil for safe, effective, and rapid healing of cancer and other diseases that are impossible from mainstream medicine. Rick used high grade naphtha as the solvent to extract the oils, but most current oil providers use ethyl alcohol, commonly called grain alcohol, which is also used for most herbal tinctures. Naptha is highly flammable and may leave toxic residues, ditto for isopropyl alcohol. Both are still used by a few cannabis oil makers, but there are toxicity issues. Some years ago, Rick Simpson had discovered this cure for himself and then had shared it at no cost with others in the small rural town of Maccan, Nova Scotia. He maintains that someone who...